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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 23, 1996Jackson Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1996, 7:57 PM CDT for Jackson Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 1996, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 23, 2:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
230 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 1996

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST TEXAS ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MORNINGS MCS. QUICK LOOK AT
RUC MODEL INDICATES BEST MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IN WATCH AREA WITH THETAE
AXIS ALONG A FTW TO CANTON TX LINE. THIS AXIS SHIFTS EAST BY TONIGHT
WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST OF PRESENT
SLS BOX. VORT AXIS SET UP ALONG NORTHEAST TEXAS TO SOUTHWEST ARK
LINE WILL MOVE EAST BY TONIGHT WITH GOOD LIFTING ALSO INDICATED
BY 12Z RUNS THIS MORNING. DECAYING MCS ACROSS SOUTHERN OK AND SOUTHERN
AR HAS WORKED OVER AIR PRETTY GOOD TODAY BUT BELIEVE ANOTHER SYSTEM
WILL FORM LATE TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN OK PER 12Z NGM. LIKE TIMING OF
THIS FEATURE WITH CURRENT DEVELOPMENT. WITH THETAE AXIS SHIFTING EAST
TONIGHT...PWS AROUND 2IN...ADAPS LIS -10...TTS AOA 50 AND NW FLOW
ALOFT...NEED TO BUMP FIRST PERIOD POPS TO 40 PERCENT ACROSS THE BOARD
WITH MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL LATE. WITH DECAYING MCS TOMORROW...LIKE
ALSO TO BUMP POPS TO AT LEAST 50 FOR TOMORROW WITH MENTION OF HEAVY
RAIN AS WELL. MOS TEMPS LOOK GOOD TONIGHT BUT MAY NEED TO LOWER AT
LEAST A CAT WITH CURRENT THINKING OF BKN TO OVC A GOOD PART OF THE
DAY AND RAINFALL FCST. WITH TCU BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST WINDOW...PRETTY
BUSY SO MUST GO...

SHV 75/91/75/94  4533       MLU 75/93/75/95  4443

BERRY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 5:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	63 min
Jul 23, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Lincoln	57 min
Jul 23, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Red River	51 min
Jul 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	60 min
Jul 23, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	56 min
Jul 23, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson	63 min
Jul 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	60 min
Jul 23, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	59 min
Jul 23, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Winn	66 min
Jul 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	61 min
Jul 24, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Morris	34 min
Jul 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	62 min
Jul 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	61 min
Jul 24, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	28 min
Jul 24, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	26 min
Jul 24, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	67 min
Jul 24, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	53 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.